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Kevin Rudd, the Australian Prime Minister, has appointed a record number of
women to his new Cabinet, six days after ousting his predecessor Julia
Gillard.

Mr Rudd unveiled his new Cabinet as the latest polling took him ahead of Tony
Abbott, the opposition Liberal leader, as preferred prime minister and gave
the Labor party a bounce in the polls, with its primary vote up 6 per cent
from 29 per cent to 35 per cent, while the Liberal Coalition’s primary vote
went down from 48 per cent to 43 per cent.